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Category: Behavioral Biology
Despite tens or hundreds of thousands of years of very strong Natural Selection, wildebeest do not arrive at the Mara River with a genetically determined brain mechanism or module that helps (much) to keep them from being eaten by the crocodiles that live in the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:52 PM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sex Differences
Sheril Kirshenbaum has a few comments about a piece in Science addressing innate differences between boys and girls in math. I have to say, it may be hard to accept the scientific truth sometimes, but the research really does consistently say the same thing again...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:50 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
An overview of the classic literature in my field of study.
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:14 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
I think I know why science does not understand the female orgasm. It is because science excels when it breaks free of context, history, human complexities and anthropology, but when a topic requires one to grasp context, history, human complexities and anthropology, then science, especially...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:09 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Brain and Behavior
Humans appear to have a reasonable amount of diversity in their sexual orientations, in what is often referred to as "gender" and in adult behavior generally. When convenient, people will point to "genes" as the "cause" of any particular subset of th is diversity (or...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:35 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
Behaviors are not caused by genes. There is not a gene that causes you to be good, or to be bad, or to be smart, or good at accounting, or to like bananas. There are, however, drives. "Drives" is a nicely vague term that we...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:13 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Poe warning
Richard Tokumei has written a book that is so bad he is ashamed to put his own name on it. "Richard Tokumei" is the pen name of a 'writer/editor in Southern California [with] degrees in Humanities and Phychology from the University of California Berkeley" and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:39 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods II
There are human universals. There, I said it. Now give me about a half hour to explain why this is both correct and a Falsehood. But first, some background and definition....
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:26 PM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Rape
This came up a while ago and I assumed the idea would die the usual quick and painless death, but the idea seems to be either so fascinating or so irritating to people (mainly in various blog comment sections) that it still twitches and still...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:07 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
I went out with a friend. We were both between relationships, and we both knew somehow that this was a date though it was never called a date. And we had a perfectly good time: Good food, good conversation, good drinks. She drove. When it...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:40 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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